Knitting Emergency

I have taken a little break from knitting this last year. I think part of it has to do with the fact that I have a basket overflowing with “finished” knitting projects that are not quite finished and I made a pact with myself to not start anything until they were finished. Basically the knitting is done just need to sew up the pieces. I think I have four sweaters.

I moved my yarn from a very prominent bookcase display in my living room up to my loft. I love it! My living room feels so much bigger and more open and I was pleasantly surprised to find the 4 by 4 cube IKEA bookcase, when taken apart can be turned into a linear bookcase one cube high that runs along the wall up in my loft. A few weeks ago I organized all my yarn into the new arrangement.

A few days ago I pulled some yarn out to make a last minute Christmas gift. I find that when I’m stumped on what to get someone - why not knit them something. I pulled out a few balls of my purple Debbie Bliss Soho yarn and was about to cast on when I found the ball in my lap had more than two ends. It was like a dozen plus. I was flummoxed at first and then it dawned on me and I jumped up. I looked at the ball closer and saw their were little worms! In my horror I put it into a ziplock bag and put it out on my porch to deal with later. And then I started going through the other balls of yarn. No eating of the yarn but I did find a few more worms that I smushed.

My question to my knitter friends - what do I do?! It looks like the worms (moth?) were just on a few balls of yarn. But I moved my yarn so don’t know what yarn was next to what yarn and if they were on other balls of yarn too. I did a visual and couldn’t find them on any other yarn. But most of my stash is 100% wool. And the worms move - when I picked up one ball, it did a quick dive into the dark regions and there was one worm I saw but couldn’t find again. I have a good deal of yarn so there’s no way I’m throwing it all out. Luckily the yarn is farther away from my clothes, so hopefully no cross-contamination. Any thoughts?